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Re: Toshiba 3990 pauses between tracks? (long)

Posted by TomLarson on November 25, 2006 at 07:52:19

In Reply to: Re: Toshiba 3990 pauses between tracks? posted by PeAK on November 25, 2006 at 07:30:26:

THanks for the research. My other player is a Pioneer 563a dvd (and sacd etc) machine and it plays the disks in question without the pause. And as far as I can remember, I set nothing special in the setup. I have not yet hooked up the Toshiba to a tv to run through the menus--I don't do dvds in this system. I did take a look at the cd as it played through the pioneer and the piano stops playing, the music fades (not long of a fade) and the pioneer stays on the same track but with the elapsed time still increasing, maybe one, two seconds. Then the next track begins immediatelly--bamb. On some cd players Ive had--I think the one in my car at the moment--you can actually see a negative time, -3,-2, -1...between tracks. I will take a look at the Toshiba menus today. I just don't get how the Toshiba can sound this good this cheap. In the quote from the Stereophile article in a lower post, Aktinson says he personally would spend the 'extra' $1,950 to get the somewhat better sound of the Moon player (or whatever) he is reviewing. OK,that's fine, but if Toshiba can do something close for $50, someone out there--the old Mod Squad, the new ???--ought to be able to do it using this machine, charge $500 and still make a huge profit. The main thing the Toshiba is reinforcing for me is how sick the hi end industry is. It's become a rich man's game...and Im not so sure any more, even if I became a rich man (Ha) that I would play it. Since you asked in one of your two posts, my Toshiba goes into a very old Cary preamp that I paid $340 for on audiogon, then into a Hafler Transnova amp that I paid $600 on the 'gon and to 20 year old Vandersteen 2C speakers that I DID buy new (but got a discount) way back when. For the hell of it I pulled out some old tweeks--the mapleshade brass weights and some imitation rollerballs and started to use them with the Toshiba--rather than gunk up the inside with calk at this point. Also, something I never do, I bought a two year warranty at bestbuy for $12.99,figuring, hey...it means I'll get a new one for two years if it breaks. Again, thanks for the info.. I will check out your links after I eat breakfast!!!

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